for the convenience of the population a network of retail shops, through which monopoly products are distributed, whereby Soviet shops and shops of cooperative societies are included in this retail network. In order to obtain products distributed through Soviet and Cooperative shops, each citizen must register with a certain specific retail shop included in the network.

In transitioning to the municipalization of retail trade, local Soviets and food supply organs are obliged to be guided by the following rules: a) subject to municipalization are, in the first place, retail trading enterprises; in the second place, wholesale trading enterprises insofar as they have local significance.

b) in the first instance, trade in those products which have been declared monopoly products is subjected to municipalization.

c) Municipalization of retail trade in non-monopolized products is henceforth permitted only upon the creation by central organs of the possibility of supplying the population with these products through Soviet and cooperative shops.

d) In the municipalization of branches of trade indicated in the preceding points, municipalized shops must not be sealed for more than seven days; trading in them must from the 8th day continue under the responsibility of an agent of the Food Department, and if it is impossible to appoint such an agent—under the responsibility of the Committee of Employees, even if the accounting of goods has not been completed, whereby all receipts are turned over to the cashier of the Food Department. The present rule is extended also to shops sealed prior to the publication of the present decree, whereby the weekly period in these cases is calculated from the day of publication of the present decree.

d) * Cooperative warehouses and shops are not subject to nationalization. ** In those places where, prior to the publication of the present decree, local organs of Soviet power nationalized

*At this point in the draft of the decree there is a note: "insert"; in a handwritten correction by Lenin before this phrase Lenin wrote "at first:". Ed.